Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz
The question at the core of Dr. Sungu’s work is: what factors influence cities’ economic, social, and environmental sustainability? In searching for answers, she has worked with academics, practitioners, civic leaders, community organizers, and policy analysts. Her publications cover innovation-oriented economic development, brownfield redevelopment, community land trusts, and inter-organizational collaboration in disaster management. She was […]
Ana Villarreal
Ana Villarreal is an Associate Professor of Sociology whose research focuses on emotions, cities, violence, and their relations to inequality. Her research looks into how fear and violence in Mexico have deepened class, racial, urban, and civic disparities. She published her first work The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis (Oxford […]
Carolyn White
Carolyn L. White is director of the Preservation Studies Program and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her scholarship focuses on cultural heritage, the materiality of daily life, the built environment, active site archaeology, and the intersection of art and archaeology. Her research spans four centuries, focusing on personal adornment and […]
Mary Willis
Urban H Interests: Health/Mental Health Mary D. Willis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her expertise lies in environmental epidemiology, spatial exposure assessment, and applied data science. Much of her work also leverages econometric-based causal inference methods. She is particularly interested in […]